hyposerotonemia

English

Etymology

hypo- +‎ serotonemia

Noun

hyposerotonemia (uncountable)

1. (pathology) A reduced level of serotonin in the blood
   • 2016 February 24, “Constitutively Elevated Blood Serotonin Is Associated with Bone Loss and Type 2 Diabetes in Rats”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Bidirectional genetic selection of rats toward extreme activities of platelet 5HTT through successive generations, resulted in divergence into two discrete sublines with lifelong hyper- or hyposerotonemia as well as constitutional hyper- or hypoactivity of the serotonergic system in general [18 ].

Related terms

• hyperserotonemia